You should know, I'm writing for you, wherever you are.It all started a couple of years back, as we all know. The PIGs attacked six years ago, on December 30, 2000 during our New Year's festivities. Despite how many days have passed I still feel like it was yesterday. The war has just been going on for too long, now...the struggle for humans to overcome death, a concept that hangs over everyone's heads.For the record, the PIGs were not as stupid as peoeple assume them have to be. It doesn't take a scientist to realize that they picked the perfect moment to attack in each time zone of the world - New Year's, and for 2000, of all years. I'm not sure whether it was a god-sent or not, but many people were in their own ways prepared for it - expecting the apocolypse, or something like it.Instead they got PIGs.I really hope someday in the future our children can laugh at such a concept. PIGs? Why, those little creatures that scurry around on four legs? You don't mean to say, those same ones we make pork-chops from?If only. Now the concept of a "PIG" strikes fear and madness into the eyes of every lost soul on this god-forsaken shell of a city. When I think about its state I get shivers down my spine - sure, Toronto was never the lovliest city in the world...but seeing it reduced to a wasteland is something else. You don't think it possible on first assumption that PIGs could do all this alone - and you're right. I don't want the children to grow up thinking the PIGs are responsible for all of this - no, PIGs don't blow up cities...countries, even. A PIG's one soul misson in life is to breed - and breeding is ALL they do. A simple bite, mingling of the saliva to the blood (or at least that's what we think) does the trick, and suddenly a human warps into a PIG right in front of your eyes. Half human, half PIG - 100% monster. No, PIGs did not cause the degregration of our civilization - we did. Plain and simple as that...people against people, it's the oldest dispute in history. No matter what, humans make the same mistakes - and that's to fight one another. Instead of ganging up against the PIGs the people started completly flipping out and killing anything that moved. No one was to be trusted; no one.So this is where I'll start the story, because honestly I think it deserves to be written down before such a time is completly forgotten. You have your own triligies to write, Tory, but this...this is mine, and mine alone. This is Cold-Blue.It can't be named anything else. It's the feeling you get on a cold winter's morning - the wind slapping against your lungs mercilessly. Everything is hued a grey-blue, the crsip sky pressing down on the world. You're left staring out into its immensity, feeling small and feeble against the force of nature - the power of the world.
That is cold-blue.
"What are you looking at?" my bratty little sister, Mandy, asked, staring at me with one of her insane smiles.
"Nothing," I replied, shivering. Quickly I clutched her mitted hand and led her down the driveway. The morning was bitter, relentless. I cursed my sister for her need to go to the park in such cold weather.
At least I wont be alone, I thought with a sigh.
I saw her before she noticed me, clutching the swing she sat on while staring up at the sky.
Does she feel it too?Many flew from my grip and cried, "Crystal!" Noticing, her eyes flew back to earth and caught Mandy before being consumed by the brat's monster-hug.
"Hey, Mandy!" she said, putting her down, "you wanna push on the swing?"
"Yeah!"
Crystal helped her up and gave her a gentle push. Sighing, I kicked a piece of ice to be noticed.
"I saw ya, Lili," she said with her usual casualness. "Pretty cold, eh?"
I propped my ass on the cold bench glad that there was barely any snow - it had been a mild winter. "Sure is."
"But it's winter break, so I'm glad we're spending it well - right Mandy?"
"Higher!" the brat replied instead, forcing Crystal to give her another push.
I scoffed. "Yeah, right...I'd rather be sleeping, cozy, in my..." I had been about to say, "my room", but really, such a thing didn't exist. With seven children my parents had found it hard to supply each of us with such a luxary.
"My house?" Crystal continued my sentence, giving me a teasing grin.
Snorting I looked to the sky - it was true, in a way, that Crystal's was like a second home to me. She was a spoiled only child with two middle-class parents. Her life was incrediably ideal to me, in fact, i had spent most of my time there, even sleeping over once and a while.
Rubbing my eyes I looked to the sky again, seemingly catching something in the distant horizen.
A plane, I thought, longingly,
soaring in the free sky.
"Whatever," was my reply, "I'm just
so tired...thanks again for coming out her so early in the morning, by the way."
"No problem," she remarked with a sweet smile, "it's our little New Year's park party! Right - Mandy?"
Many was not happy. "Stop the swing - now!" she cried, flailing her legs with such a force that Crystal had to drag her to a stop.
"It's too cold!"
"My
god," I said, jumping from the bench, "you are
such a brat!" Rolling my eyes, I hefted her from the swing and dropped her to the frozen sand. "I guess we're going back - sorry, Crys."
She shrugged. "It's no problem...not like either of us live far from here."
"Home - now!"
"Yeah, yeah," I growled while snatching her hand. "See yeah later, Crys."
"See you!" she called after us, "And have a happy New Year's!"
"Yeah you too!" I called over my shoulder, dragging Mandy along. For some reason I could feel her watching my back, as if, there was something important she wanted to say, but couldn't bring herself to do so. Whatever it was, and of course, I have my suspicions, I'll never know.
I wouldn't see Crystal for about another four weeks, and by then, it was too late.
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hows this for a beginning - eh jade? i took me forever to find the book we put all the stuff down it! argh! ...hmm im so tired im sure there's so many mistakes.
i wrote this, btw! this is mine - if ne1 wants it they gotta ask for my permisson! lol ggetting used to this legal...stuff. haha
ne way hope u enjoy it - tell me wat u think!
damn i wish u were awake - whyd u go to sleep early? hahaha
cu!
oh ps - u like the title, dont u? absolute zero...awsome, isnt it? hehehe
